Apr 27, 2024 | Writings for the Journey
How often do we rely on our intellect in our discovery of God? “God is the uncaused cause.”While it is important not to exclude our capacity to reason, there are other recourses in ourdiscovery of the ways God wants to relate to us. God wants to communicate love to...
Apr 16, 2024 | Writings for the Journey
If we have experienced what St. Paul experienced when he says, “It is not I that lives butChrist who lives in me”, the resurrected Christ is already living in our hearts. If we havesurrendered our life to God, then Christ is continuing his ministry through us. We are...
Mar 30, 2024 | Writings for the Journey
Consider that this would be the last day of your life. What would you want to do? Wouldyou want to connect with people you love or those who would miss you? Would youwant to seek forgiveness, or would you want to express forgiveness to others in your life?Would you...
Mar 16, 2024 | Writings for the Journey
During periods in our lives, we experience loss – the death of parents, the ending of afriendship, a sadness that our planet is suffering with the climate crisis, the feeling ofpowerlessness in coping with what seems to be unsolvable dilemmas.We hear Jesus saying...
Mar 8, 2024 | Writings for the Journey
If you have seen the movie, “Sister Act”, you know that when the nuns are singing “Iwill follow Him” they are referring to their relationship to Jesus. Other popular songscould also be thought of as referring to a relationship to Jesus or to God. The song Ihave in...
Mar 2, 2024 | Writings for the Journey
Fire has many qualities. It can provide warmth. It can purify a substance; it can createnew land with volcano flow. Fire from a kiln can finish a vase and make it beautiful.Fire can also be disruptive. It can burn whatever is in its path. Fire is high energy. Wecould...
